Napkin Fold Card with Punch Craft

Hi. Today's card is a special fold card called as the Napkin Fold Card. This is my second try at it. I kept it pretty simple with some punch craft on the band.

This is how it looks when opened up. You can see the band before pnch craft was done on it.

 

DIY Flower Basket

Hey guys. I am very happy to share this project with you that I made on order last week. 

All the flowers and leaves are handmade by me. My client wanted to gift this to her husband on his birthday, and the feedback in her own words was.... " Your card and basket made my day"!!  So does mine :) .... the appreciation we get for our hardwork is the true fruit of our labour.

As you can see, there is an assortment of flowers... daisies, carnations in two sizes and some fillers. I didn't have big leaves to match the flowers, so I decided to make them on my own. I handcut white CS in mixed shapes and sizes and colored them using distress inks. I loved the natural shaded effect with distress inks.

Here is an overhead view of the basket.. 

Edited: The basket is upcycled. It was a chocolate bouquet as you can see in the picture below. I removed all the laces and raised the handle of the basket which was orgininally glued down here. I have also used the long sticks on which the chocolates were mounted, to stem the flowers. For the small blue daisies, I used my old semi-dried nail polish to color them.

 

Challenges entered

LESSology Challenge #29 - Birthday Party
Color Conceptions #4 - Spread your wings with distress inks [Leaves have been colored with Shabby shutters and Forest Moss]
Stampavie and More - #195 Flowers
Crafter's Cafe - #30 Diecuts/Punches
Crafty Sentiments - Anything But A Card
Stamp with Fun - Decoration

Shabby Chic Cart

Hi. Wishing you all a very Happy Valentine's Day. I have a special post for this special day. It is a Shabby Chic Cart that I made out of the mail box template by adding few elements into it. I had seen this type of cart somewhere on Pinterest [I got the link: Tara's Card Studio]and really wanted to make something like that. I have used lots of punches for this project.

 This is a side view of the cart. I really like that cute li'l flower pocket next to window. I have always wanted something like this in my house.

 A view from the back.

 I have put some artificial grass-like stack to look like hay stack.

 The front look: There is a cute little door with knob which opens up so that you can store some goodies inside. A flower pot is placed in the balcony. For the first time I actually used the MS Fence punch to create the fence.

Hope you like my li'l cart. Do share your comments/views.

Challenges Entered
BGC #24 - Shabby Chic Love
Crafter's Corner #5 - Expression of Love
MilkCoffee Challenge - Make it Cute
Sarah Hurley Challenges #77 - Anything but a Card
Stampavie and More - Lots of Layers

Kids Name Plate - Pearl

This is one post I have been itching to share for a long time. I had made 2 name plates on order for my friend's son and niece.

This is the one I made for the girl. The one I made for the boy can be seen here. For all Kids Name Plates that I have made till now, please click here.

I also have a detailed tutorial on 'How to make Name plates for Kids'.

The theme for this name plate is mermaids and flowers since Pearl loves them. I have made it really bright so that the kid's room looks colorful.

 The alphabets are hand-cut. For the flowers I have used jumbo daisy punch. It is big enough to punch through these glitter foam sheets. The leaves are again hand-cut since I didn't have that big a punch for leaves and I also did not want all leaves to be same size.

I am happy with the whole look of the name plate and am glad that Pearl liked it very much!!

Challenges enetered

Divas by Design - #71 Winged Things

House That Stamps Built - bright colors and vibrant prints

Penny's Paper-Crafty - #113 Ribbons/Bows 

How to make flowers with Scallop circle

Hi. Before we move to today's post I have some good news to share with you all. I won the Weddings & Celebrations Challenge at Itsy Bitsy for my White and Green Double Gatefold card. 

Also my Black, White and Grey Floral frame set got an Honorable mention in Crafters Corner Challenge  - Anything but a Card or a LO.

I am sharing this card today that I had made as DT for Lulupu blog. It is a simple S-shaped card. I have punched the outer fold using MS Lace punch. At the inner panel I have used washi tape to decorate the card.

 Here is the tutorial for making these gorgeous flowers.

Thanks a lot for visiting my blog and appreciating my work.



Love theme Magic Explosion Box

Heya. This is a Love theme Magic Explosion Box that I created for ICR's 2nd anniversary GD Blog Hop that is happening today. To know more about the Blog Hop click here.

 These flowers are handmade using circle scallop punch.

A sneak peek inside the box.

 The full view of the box. The center part is inspired by a cozy valentine table setting with a cupcake and flower bouquet on the table. The no. 2 depicts the table no. and also 2 years of togetherness of a couple.

Did you guess how I made those mini table and chairs? I have used the stoppers that come in pizza delivery boxes. I have used doily lace punch to make the edge of the table and for the chair I have used the lattice heart punch. The cute li'l cupcake is made of paper quilling.

 These are the four panels of the box. This one has a cute mini envelope sticker.

 This one has cute li'l cupcakes and a heart.

 Here I have two hearts sticker..

 And then a flower bunch sticker.

 These are the four tags inside the pockets.

Challenges entered

Crafters Corner #5 - Expressions of Love

BGC#24 - Shabby Chic Love

For the Love of Crafting Challenge#11 - Fancy folds
Creative Creations Challenge Blog - Love-themed
Cutie Pie Challenge - Valentines Cards
Fashionista Challenge -Valentines

Wedding Card with MS Punches

Hi all. I made this card and this quilled photo frame for a client who wanted to gift it to her niece immediately after her wedding in court. The bride was thrilled to receive this handmade surprise gift.

To add a personal touch, she added the couple's photo on the tag along with a hand-written message.

The flowers on the band are handmade using 5 petal punch.

The client had to carry the box to Delhi, so I made a sturdy packaging for the card and frame. I upcycled a sweet box by covering it with fancy paper, to hold the gifts.

Here's a peek at the full package..

Thanks a lot for visiting my blog and showering me with so many wonderful comments. I love reading all your comments.

Challenges entered

Itsy Bitsy - Weddings & Celebrations Challenge

For the Love of Crafting Challenge#11 - Fancy folds

Napkin Fold Card

Hi there! I fell in love with this card that Ujjwal made.... Altough I had seen this fold on the net, but when Ujjwal made this card, I actually realised the beauty of this fold. I couldn't resist and made three Napkin Fold Cards at one go!!

Here's a peek into one of the cards that I made...

I have used MS Doily Lace Punch in this card. This is how the card opens when the band is removed....

This is how it looks when opened flat. I have tried to use the Doily edge punch in such a way that I get neat corners like the doily corner punch.

Challenges entered

For the Love of Crafting Challenge#11 - Fancy folds

Itsy Bitsy - Weddings & Celebrations Challenge

Crafts and Me - #116 Something new

Crafting for all Seasons - #43 Something New

Frilly and Funkie - vintage - anything goes

Nutcrafters - #34 lots of flowers

Name Plate for Kids

Hi. These are two more name plates that I made on order for 2 sisters. So both had to be alike. Here is the tutorial to make name plates.

Kids Name Plate

Hi All.  Today I am sharing a project that mothers can make along with kids. It is ideal to hang on the child's room door. It can also be used to decorate kids room.

Below is a step by step tutorial on how I made this:

1. To start with, take a piece of card board. This needs to be covered with designer paper. You can take any light colored wrapping paper also. I have used the backing paper which comes with big stickers.

 2. Cut out alphabets of the kid's name in different colors of paper. You may either take pattern papers, plain paper in different colors or sticker alphabets.

 3. Ink the edges of the alphabets using colored ink pads or even a sketch pen would do. This makes the alphabets stand out a bit.

 4. Stick the alphabets on the paper and draw an outline with pencil. Cut along this outline to make the nameplate.

 5. Cut the paper and the card board along the outline and stick them together.

 6. Punch holes on the two top most points of the board and tie a ribbon or string to hang the name plate.

 7. This is how it looks after tying the ribbons.

 8. Decorate the board as desired using stickers, flowers, etc.

Challenges entered

Itsy Bitsy - Make it Dimensional

All That Scrap Wednesday Challenge - Anything but a card 

Flutterby Wednesdays - #210 any winged creature  

Inky Impressions - Anything but a card

Ruby's Rainbow - #39 Cute and Cuddly
Crafty Sentiments -Bows Or Ribbons
Kenny K`s Krafty Krew - Think Pink

Exploding Box - Birthday theme

Hi All. Here is another Exploding Box that I made on order for a lady doctor. She loved the gift a lot. This is my second one on Birthday theme. You may see my other exploding boxes here on various themes.

 I made these blooms by layering big daisy flower punch.

 A peek into the box as the lid opens...

 The cute and bright butterflies...

 The full layout when the box is opened fully.

 I decorated the cake with daisy flowers, doily punch lace and pearls.

 Since the box was being gifted to her from her joint family, these tags were useful for everyone to write their personal messages for her.

 More tags...

 This is the 3rd panel

 This is the 4th panel

 Side view of the cake. Used lot of pearls to decorate it.

Do let me know your view on this :)

Challenges entered

Itsy Bitsy - Make it Dimensional

Crafter's Corner - Celebrate with Flowers

Lulupu:Challenge #5 - My Fav 4 [I used diagonal D1]

Fairy Tale - Something with a Photo

Just Add Ink – Just add bright colors